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Back in September of 2010 Google started experimenting with a new Chrome feature called False Start, which cut the latency of SSL handshakes by up to 30 percent. While the delay in forging a secure connection never seemed like a major concern for most, the pause (which could be...

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The Raspberry Pi faithful have been looking forward to the Gertboard almost as much as the main device itself: Gert van Loo's I/O extender promises to flash lights, spin motors and otherwise take on the tasks that the Raspberry Pi doesn't directly manage on its own. While we've seen...

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It’s a pretty common occurrence around TNW’s email and backchannel that we’ll discuss an idea for a new product or a tweak to how we do things. Sometime in early 2012, TNW’s CEO Zee brought up the idea that we could gather really smart people and have them teach classes...

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In a slight tweak to the App Store, Apple recently began highlighting apps' recommended age ratings by adding a small informational box located directly below a title's developer credits, possibly in response to growing concern from parents over in-app content....

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One of the most compelling reasons to own an iPhone 4S is the voice assistant known as Siri. Siri does some awesome stuff, but what if you could make Siri even more awesome with a simple tweak? From the beginning, people have messed with Siri using proxies, but for the...

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Jailbreak developer Adam Bell has just published a new tweak that allows Facebook users to access their Chat Heads from anywhere. The tweak is called Message Box and it works remarkably well. It’s not 100% perfect yet, but it functions well enough to use full time without much of an...

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In 2009, Google brought its translation features to Gmail as a Gmail Labs experiment. Today, almost exactly two years after it first launched, this features is finally graduating from Gmail Labs. Starting in the next few days, you will see an option to “Translate message” in the header at the...

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To mandate that an automated inspector must jot down the fact of every exchange is to shrivel the domain of privacyTrust us. It's for your own safety. Besides, it's not all that different from what we already do. Plans to monitor and log every form of electronic communication are heading...

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My first day with a jailbroken iPhone didn’t go so well. I, like others, found that Cydia was all-but-unreachable all day yesterday, preventing me from downloading any of the goodies available from the store and leaving a single brown icon as the only proof that I had even changed anything....

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Heavy Google users out there are likely very familiar with how new features get added to the company's services: employees create "Labs" that are available at first in beta, and then the most popular ones get promoted into full-fledged options. That's what's happened today to a few Gmail Labs,...

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Firefox 20 adds a handy new Download button. If you're a Firefox user, you may have noticed a few changes in the latest version of Mozilla's browser, which "turned 20" last week. Among them: a new Download Manager. It's a small tweak, and I'd say one for the better,...

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You get an email, and it’s a pretty important one. If you’re using Gmail, there’s a lot of things you can do with it to make it stand out. Basically, so you don’t lose it. You can filter it to have a label, give it a star or mark it...

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Dropbox has announced a nice tweak for its web interface today, bringing instant updates of files and folders. From now on, you’ll see any changes to files in your Dropbox reflected instantly on the web, in addition to the Dropbox app on your computer. Previously, you had to refresh the...

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Microsoft is updating user interface for Windows Phone 8, an update to its Windows Phone software, with the addition of "live tiles." The standard-issue big blocks of color now basically operate as data feeds, showing photos, text updates and other types of content directly to the home page. If you...

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If, like us, you regularly take screenshots on an iPhone or iPad, you'll have probably worked out a system for getting those images off the device. Over at The Iconmaster, John Marstall is looking to streamline the process, avoiding even the relatively minimal inconvenience of sharing through Dropbox. Instead,...

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Multitasking has been a part of iOS for a number of years — coming to third-party apps in 2010 with the launch of iOS 4.0 — but iOS device users have often lamented at the lack of innovation in the implementation of Apple’s app-switching features. In early October, designer @Sentry_NC wowed...

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Creating camera-phone-friendly QR codes with a goo.gl shortlink URL tweak is nice, but one of our readers took the next logical step. His bookmarklets creates a goo.gl link, automatically converts it to a QR code, and shows you the result. More »...

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LinkedIn's latest acquisition is giving a nod to its new boss: Pulse users can now share news stories with their professional connections. According to the Pulse blog, the tweak is part of a series of collaborations that started when Pulse moved into LinkedIn headquarters, and more updates are on...

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Last week we told you about a jailbreak tweak that enables LTE at 1700mhz by loading a custom carrier firmware on an existing, unlocked AT&T iPhone 5. It was good news for T-Mobile customers interested in taking advantage of the carrier’s LTE network without updating to Apple’s new T-Mobile/AT&T iPhone...

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Path, a closely watched, generously funded mobile startup, has more users than you might think--but less than it hoped it would have after a tweak to its service. The company tells us, according to its own statistics, it has reached 500,000 daily users--a number it has not previously revealed. But...

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Facebook is testing out a new way of highlighting comments for items in users Top Stories news feed, according to an interface tweak spotted yesterday by Ryan Spoon of Polaris Ventures. Here’s how the new story type appears to work. First, a mutual friend shares a link on Facebook. This...

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You may be more than the sum of your parts, but to Klout, you're just a number. The analytics company monitors your interactions on Twitter, Facebook, LinkedIn and beyond. It then sorts through the data to generate a numeric score that purportedly "measures a person's overall online influence" on...

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Apsalar, a San Francisco-based mobile analytics startup, is giving developers more precision in how they target their users. The company is launching something called “Advanced User Segments” today. In plain English, that means that developers can change the way their app works or send targeted promotions to consumers based on...

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Facebook has temporarily disabled its New Year's Eve messaging tool after a university student was able to read and delete private messages intended for other users. Jack Jenkins, a business IT student at Aberystwyth university, alerted Facebook to the privacy flaw after finding that a small tweak to a web...

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Twitter's just announced an update for its Android and iOS apps and mobile site aimed to help users locate desired tweets with ease. Now, search queries for specific keywords will turn up a "Top Tweet" -- a result the company claims is more closely "based on relevance and engagement."...

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The original TwelveSouth BackPack was a pretty slick way to hang a hard drive on the support bar of an iMac or Apple display, tucking it out of the way and keeping it off of your desk. The new version, the BackPack 2, adds some nice new abilities, like vertical...

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The iPhone 5 has plenty of new features to keep Apple fans happy. But as Brian X. Chen reports in Thursday's New York Times, there is one feature Apple unveiled that is likely to annoy many: a new connector on the phone's base....

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The Daily Beast's Daniel Klaidman reports that the Obama White House is preparing to okay a move which would essentially take the CIA's drone program and put it under the control of the Department of Defense. The two programs would be merged, but the CIA would still play a...

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Smart thermostat maker Nest announced on Thursday that it’s done one of its biggest upgrades in terms of both software and hardware since it launched its thermostat five months ago. The move shows both how Nest is still a startup, and has been reiterating its design in a field that...

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In what is an awesome tweak for verified accounts, Twitter now lets you choose to see only the Tweets put out by that user, rather than all mixed in with replies to the account. This lets you get a clean stream of just tweets made ‘out to the public’ from...